This tour is totally different than other traditional tours, this tour will take you to the places where you’ll have the contacts with local agricultural production and cultivation of potatoes.
Is our goal to innovate new tourist attraction this is in order to provide more jobs to the locals, the idea is leave some money to them as motivation keeping the culture and tradition in those communities. Machulas journey is a company who is creating different tours we are with our cultural identity which is our obligations.!!
We will pick you up at your hotel at 7:00 am and will start our tour by private van. From cusco 30 minutes driving through beautiful mountains we’ll arrive to awanacancha here we can see llamas, alpacas, and vicuña farm where you can take cool pictures with them.
Then we’ll continue driving 1 and half hours to one of the communities pampacancha, here one of the local guide will teach and explain us the hundres of varieties of potatoes that actually excited in Peru and also he will show us the bank of potato seed. After that our next stop will be pisac inca site where we’ll see tremendous farming terraces, the tour guide will teach you about the religious, cemetery, political and storehouses.
After next destination will be Urubamba town where we’ll visit the local market, in this market we’ll observe the mixture of crops that are farmed in sacred valley of the incas the guide will give you the information and show all the products are in this market. once explored we’ll continue driving for 25 minutes to Ollantaytambo train station from where you’ll take the train for 2 hours all the way to aguas calientes and then stay in 3 stars hotel until next day.
Today is the most magical day because you will finally experience Machupicchu. You will wake up early to catch one of the first buses around 5:00 am, for 25 minute ride up to machupicchu. You will see sunrise over the ruins. Your guide will take you for an informative two hours afterwards you will have time to explore on your own and climb to huaynapicchu or machupicchu mountains if you ordered once you booked your tour (this is a separate entrance ticket), in the afternoon you are returning to Cusco first you will catch the train for two hours back to Ollantaytambo and then continue driving by bus all the way to Cusco and to your hotel.
